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I'll admit my memories of 2013 are hazy, but I do recall TRIM being an issue early in the Macbook's history†. Backup your stuff! I happen to also back up to an

I'll admit my memories of 2013 are hazy, but I do recall TRIM being an issue early in the Macbook's history†. Backup your stuff! I happen to also back up to an SSD these days, because the difference between minutes and hours is hard to argue with. †edit: history of shipping with an SSD standard, that is.

lostlogin 4y ago
> because the difference between minutes and hours is hard to argue with. If the backups are incremental it shouldn’t take hours.
- Retric 4y ago
  Incremental backups are slightly higher risk.
- samatman 4y ago
  For a given backup an SSD will be much faster, less susceptible to drop and vibration damage, and pocketable where a portable hard drive is pouchable at best.